Collections : [The Litchfield Historical Society]

"An Eulogy on Alexander Metcalf Fisher," 1998-41-0, is a printed pamphlet of a eulogy delivered on June 26, 1822 at the Yale College Chapel, delivered by James L. Kingsley. Inside the cover is written in ink the name, "Lydia Dillwyn." On page 19 there is a handwritten note in pencil which reads, "Prof. Kingsley has (very properly) omitted to state the fact his lamented colleague was engaged to be married to an interesting young woman of Litchfield, Connecticut and that in the will he left behind him, he bequeathed her what little property he possessed. JG."

An inventory of Anna A. Baldwin's estate, particularly notes and interest due to the estate. Listed items are dated 1827 to 1835. No location is indicated.

Two poems written by Anna Seward: "Address to the River Tweed, on Mr. Scott's Having Chosen His Habitation on Its Banks" dated Lichfield, April 17, 1805; and "The Grave of Youth", undated. These are probably from Lichfield, England

The Anne Lyon Haight papers (2013-127-0) consist of newspaper clippings, letters, airline brochures, memorabilia, and photographs of airplane trips taken by Mrs. Sherman Haight. These trips include the maiden flight of a Pan-American Clipper seaplane from Miami to Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone in November 1931 that made stops in Cuba, Jamaica and Barranquilla, Columbia and was piloted by Charles Lindbergh. Also a trip on a Pan American Dixie Clipper which was the first commercial passenger trip across the Atlantic, leaving Port Jefferson, Long Island on June 29, 1939. In 1944, Mrs. Haight went to Colombia and Ecuador, South America on a Pan American plane to join Joselyn Crane, a researcher for the New York Zoological Society. And she was on another first - the first Pan American jet flight to Europe - in 1958.

Landscape design plans.

This collection consists of Smith family papers, primarily Lemuel Smith and his family, who lived in the Northfield section of Litchfield. Within the collection are deeds, a few financial records and probate records, and a surveyor's record book (1807).

Marshall Field and Company department store advertising pamphlet, circa 1920; three World War II ration books; three illustrated pages (may have been part of a book); newspaper clipping, "Butler Announces Lindy's Baby Dead"; five unidentified (non-family) daguerreotypes; twenty slides marked "Cambridge, OH small town parade with many old cars, vintage gas station and motel."

Proclamation of the Town of Litchfield that Oct. 21, 1984, be designated Anson Dickinson Day, signed by Charles A. Dobos, First Selectman.

Correction of the Records of the survey of 15 acres laid out to Captain Archibald McNiele as recorded in the 3rd book of Litchfield land records, pg. 39. Resurveyed by Charles McNiele, son of Archibald. Property south of the Seymour Meadow. Signed by Isaac Bissell and Asahel Strong, Committee and attested by Moses Seymour, register.

The Architectural Survey of Litchfield, Connecticut (2012-32-0) consists of individual survey reports on houses and buildings in Litchfield, 9 survey maps, and 8 acetate copies of George Browne's Map of Litchfield, created during the 1930s-40s (copies are availalble for study as is a key to these maps which is with the accession records). The Greater Litchfield Preservation Trust conducted the architectural survey in 1986-1987. The Greater Litchfield Preservation Trust in a volunteer group that funds preservation studies and invests in historic buildings in Litchfield. It began in an effort to save the 19th century post office building.